I discovered Israeli government procurement documents showing a Canadian group that's sending right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel was granted funds from Israel's foreign ministry The funding came through an arm of the ministry focused on managing “public perception of Israel”

In his weekly Deception Decoded segment on CTV News, Bellingcat's Director of Research and Training @giancarlofiorella.bsky.social explained our recent work investigating how Grok AI was being used to fabricate images related to the latest release of Epstein files. www.ctvnews.ca/video/decept...

Last week I speculated that by the end of the year a majority of “helpful” Community Notes on X could be AI-generated. To monitor this sorry milestone (and rate my forecasting abilities), I decided to build a free dashboard that tracks the share of AI notes. Check it out on @indicator.media

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Far-right Canadian separatists from the Alberta Prosperity Project (APP) say they met three times with “very, very senior” Trump administration officials in 2025, with another meeting planned, - The Daily Beast

Trump endorses Orban

We must never normalize these ongoing attacks by DHS agents on the people they supposedly protect. Trump, Vance, Miller, & Noem have created a culture of impunity that has led to rampant abuse and killings. Not one more dime for this lawlessness.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

EXCLUSIVE: The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. theintercept.com/2026/02/13/a...

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

Wow: Meta has been working on plans to add facial recognition technology to its AI smart glasses. nyti.ms/3Os1oxf And this was the company’s cynical view on when, and how, to do it:

Disaster capitalism. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”

Marimar Martinez was shot by Border Patrol five times. DHS accused her of being a domestic terrorist. She went to court to get the body cam footage released. It shows Agent Charles Exum driving with his gun drawn. Saying “do something b*tch”. Ramming her car. Shooting her. It shows DHS lied.

This story about online speculation about the Tumbler Ridge shooter and fears of 'trans violence' has been the most read on the @thestar.com's website all day. The Star is trying a new thing where reporters answer Qs now in the comments, which I will be doing at 5ET. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

New from 404 Media: we've confirmed cops are buying access to GeoSpy, an AI that can geolocate photos in seconds. Doesn't use metadata, but clues in the photo like soil, architecture, to pinpoint where social media photos taken. Being used in investigations www.404media.co/cops-are-buy...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

In addition, CNN reports that “a source briefed by FAA tells the El Paso flight ban was driven by military operations from Biggs Army Air Field at Fort Bliss. The FAA acted after the Defense Department could not assure civilian flight safety.”

a society losing the plot in real time

Like 75% of the US Olympic curlers are from Minnesota. A lot of them curl out of two clubs in Saint Paul, one club is in Frogtown, a neighborhood that has been very heavily targeted by ICE. These curlers are good neighbors.

Our researcher @obtusatum.bsky.social will attempt to solve the latest Bellingcat Open Source Challenges live on Youtube tomorrow. Curious to see how he does? Join us here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=reDX...

[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car.

This is why journalism matters. People were using Grok to unredact victims' photos from the latest Epstein release. We reached out to X (they didn't respond), but then over the weekend, Grok stopped responding to those requests.

Since we reached out to X about Grok attempting to unredact photos of Epstein victims upon X users’ requests, we’ve noticed Grok now refusing to unredact new requests. Bellingcat researcher @koltai.bsky.social reports: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

This AJ article is wrong about explosions and explosives in several fundamental ways. This "phenomenon" the article mentions is due to the shock wave caused by the explosions, not due to the heat generated. www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/02...

Tonight at 7:00 PM EST I'll be playing DOOM 3 for charity on my Twitch channel! All proceeds go to @sickkidsvs.bsky.social to fund operations at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. Drop by, hang out in the chat, and please consider donating to this great cause! www.twitch.tv/gianfiorel

Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."

The U.S. killed two more civilians in a boat strike today. A survivor will likely die at sea.

Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."

This of course, is what has been said from the beginning. Will this monster, Trump EVER face ANY accountability for his actions? Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows - CBS News share.google/2a4ONX0tKClx...

No

From trans healthcare to abortion politics - the same actors keep appearing. On Thursday 5pm CET/11am EST we'll be live with @amnestyuk.bsky.social 's Chiara Capraro in Discord talking on their research tracing the political alliances shaping today’s anti-rights movement. discord.gg/bellingcat?e...

The data. exclav.es/2026/02/08/e...

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

Our new episode in collab with the IJF is OUT NOW! Watch it here: youtu.be/j8hmuGR340k

Trump crashes out over Bad Bunny’s halftime show

Logan is brilliant and you should read his stuff.

Wrote a new blog post with some data and lots of links.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

The Guardian has a rough outline of what the Tulsi whistleblower complaint is about: NSA found someone close to Trump in contact with foreign intelligence, and rather than doing something about that, Tulsi brought the report to Susie Wiles. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Grok users prompted the AI chatbot to identify victims from redacted Epstein Files images. Of 31 requests reviewed, Grok generated images for 27, spanning 18 images and one video. X did not respond to requests for comment on Grok's behaviour by time of publication. www.youtube.com/shorts/dhD8O...

There is NO CURE for #autism still scammers sell UNPROVEN treatments to desperate parents. Dr. Melanie Penner, Sr. Clinician at Holland Bloorview Hospital, says she hears about wild treatments every day! Learn about the latest scams in our collab with the IJF this Sunday at 8 PM @tvo #ASD

MK-84 2,000-pound bomb with a JDAM kit hitting a building in Gaza after an IDF notice. Bellingcat recently asked the IDF about the lack of evacuation distances in public evacuation notices in Gaza, which are included in notices in Lebanon, so interesting to see a 100m distance in the notice here.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Bang on the money: “Let it haunt Trump and his racist followers that future Americans will embrace the Obamas as beloved figures while studying him as a stain on our history.” Trump is determined to be remembered as a 'great man'. His curse is that he won't be. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

President Donald Trump shared a racist image showing former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama portrayed as apes. The White House immediately defended Trump’s post: “Please stop the fake outrage,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said… www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/t...

WARNOCK: Trump said 'we're going to have a manufacturing boom.' Yes or no, have we had one? BESSENT: There's the beginnings of a manufacturing boom. We have intentions -- factory groundbreakings WARNOCK: Do you know how many manufacturing jobs have been lost since 'liberation day'? 72,000